YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER MAN, THANK YOU. I was very confuse because I have the printer options in Spanish, so there is not option called "Ink Flush". Instead, I tried an option called "Limpieza sistema" (in english: "System Cleaning") an it did the same process explained in the video. And it worked!! I think it´s an error in the translation or something. for Spanish users: Para que tienen los que tienen esta impresora en español. Si su impresora no imprime ciertos colores y las tuberías están vacías utilicen la opción "Limpieza sistema". hace lo mismo que dice este video, literalmente un "Ink FLush" (Enjuague o purga de tinta). Las demás opciones del apartado de mantenimiento son inútiles.
I agree. Thank you so much for your video. If you don’t pay cannon for some kind of tech-support, they won’t even talk to you on the phone. What a joke but thanks to you we were able to fix our printer so thank you very much for this video. We really appreciate it. I hope it gets 1 million views!
Thank you SO MUCH!!! I am an 81-year-old woman who’s not that tech savvy and your step-by-step instructions helped me fix my ink problem. I can’t thank you enough!
Thank you so much for this - the ink flush worked after all else - cleaning etc had failed. And I would never have found that without your video. Phew! Very grateful.
Ink Flush (under “Maintenance”) worked perfectly! I should have looked inside the printer for the skinny ink tubes as shown in the video and I would have seen the same air gaps in most of the tubes. Once I ran the flush all the air gaps in the ink tubes were gone, the nozzle check results were perfect, and all printing returned to Normal! 😊🎉 Just make sure your ink levels are above the specified “dot” on all cartridges that are to be flushed before starting the flush. And watch the video before starting!! Thank you so much!
I am shocked! I have a newer model and your video still guided me right through the process. Some of the steps were facilitated by the Canon software, but basically the same. I had no magenta suddenly, and I was sure I was looking at a new printer. Following your guidance I proved myself wrong as now I have my printer working again. Thank you so very much!!!!!
This is Steve's wife. This was fantastic instruction. I had done cleaning and deep cleaning and then followed your instructions. Actually my magenta was the one that wasn't printing also. Like you, I found it used up a lot of ink but can't imagine where it went. I topped all the tanks off and everything is perfect. Thank you!
It worked! I’m amazed and grateful. This was a G4511, identical control panel. I made the mistake of first trying the Canon website which tried to get me to register the serial number online and then failed to order the action it said was necessary. The ink flush was so easy to do by comparison. But yeah, where the heck did that ink go, it was nearly a quarter of a tank’s worth of color ink, disappeared into the ether.
Thank you, thank you!!! (If I have any issues again, I will save myself a couple of hours of head-scratching with trial and error and just come find you!
My printer was brand new and had no issues initially. Then had a large order to print and the colours were off on all of them. Such a waste of ink. Tried all of your suggestions sand it worked. Thank you!!!
I had tried EVERYTHING (I thought) for months and was about to throw the printer out. After the ink flush it works perfectly again. Thanks for great clear explanation.
Thank you so much! I searched for ages, watched Canon's videos and thought my printer broken! This was the fix! Really appreciate you making this video 😊
Hello Eric, fantastic video, got straight to the point. I had all the same issues on my Canon G3620. I had done all the nozzle tests and cleaning and had the same printing outcomes as on your video. I did the ink flush as you demonstrated ...............SUCCESS. Thank you very much.
Truly a life saver, I spent hours thinking it was a profiling setting since all this "conveniently" happened when I set up my new laptop. So I thought it was a difference in updated profile setting from other videos I watched. And was confused as to why "Cleaning" would make it worse lol. And then you happened with your ink flush Idea and saved the day!!! Thank you so much!!
PERFECT! Clear instructions! I had done everything to the point of the ink flush. Found your video. Had the same issue with magenta. All fixed now! You rock!!!
To echo everyone else's comments - great job, helped me fix the printer, my yellow had stopped working. All good now. Makes me think electronics companies should pay you guys for doing easy to follow videos to fix their products!
Thanks very much. Moving my printer to a new house could have caused the problem of no magenta but running through the steps you kindly laid out for us solved it only one cleaning! Thank you very much. Very helpful video.
Thanks, man. Had no yellow and thought that was what might be needed but was reluctant to try without some helpful guidance, which is exactly what you provided.
Fantastic.... after trying what I thought was EVERYTHING ... which didn't work ... YOU saved the day. Genius .. Thanks a bunch. Will keep you bookmarked for further info.
Thank you Eric. I was getting so frustrated. I had just moved and wondered if I'd damaged the printer, even though I carefully put it in the back of my own car instead of letting the movers do it. I spilled black ink somehow, but that's all cleaned up. I had to do the flush FOUR times for it to work. So hopefully if it doesn't work for someone else first time, try, try again. Thank you again Eric
Seriously, you are the BEST! I have spent hours trying to fix this issue. I wish I would have watched your video first. Would have saved me so much time and frustration. THANK YOU!!!!
I’m very slowly trying to start a small business after having to leave my 9-5 job due to the pandemic & being home with my kids. I NEED my printer, and you just saved me from rage tossing it out of a second story window! Thank you!!!
Thank you for the great video. This is exactly what I needed. I was getting worried that something had gone wrong with my printer right in the middle of printing my son's girlfriend's senior photos. My experience was exactly like yours in that the nozzle check initially showed no magenta, then after cleaning it showed no yellow. However, after completing an ink flush everything was back to normal. I also appreciated that you showed us the little dot on the ink level windows as I had never seen that before. Thank you so much!
THANK-YOU. Fixed my printer, wasn't printing cyan at ALL. Pixma G6000. I could see the cyan wasn't going all the way through the tube on the inside. Didn't know how to do the nozzle check or cleaning before either. You rock thanks!!!
Thanks. This worked perfectly. It used so much ink though. I now have my computer set to automatically print a color test page once a week to keep this from happening again.
This video solved my problem, Thank You!! But now that this has happened and I have not had the printer more than 6 months and the flush used so much ink, so disregard the whole reason I paid this much for a printer was to save money on ink. Not Happy at all with this printer now. Will be reaching out to Canon. :( grrrrr But thank you for solving my issue!!
THANK YOU! 1 year-old printer with nearly full ink tanks, and the black completely stopped printing. Nothing I did worked, but your clear-cut instructions did the trick. Forever grateful and clicking on "SUBSCRIBE" right now!
Wow was this so helpful! We thought we'd never get it to work again, having done Clean and Deep Clean already once, but we followed your very clear instructions and it worked after yet one more Deep Clean. We can't thank you enough!
Looked and tried many videos to correct my printing problem. This one did it!!!! I have subscribed and recommend all doing the same! I might add I'm 62 years old so technology is not my "gift" but so simply demonstrated even I could do it! (Didn't even need to call the granddaughter in! lol
Ink flush did the trick! When the cleaning and deep cleaning didn't work, I was not optimistic, but the ink flush finally got my printer back. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much!! I had tried several things that didn't work (cleaning and deep cleaning) but then I followed your instructions for Ink Flush, and voila, my cyan color returned. Yay!
Thank you so much. Especially pointing out the tubes being empty. I was able to skip the deep clean and went right to my flush when I noticed the yellow and magenta tubes were empty. I'm guessing all that ink just refilled the tubes. Thanks again.
Hi! Thank you for the video! I did not know, this printer has some maintenance option without you :D Deep clean helped and now magenta is visible. Thank you very much! Have a nice day, wish you great health!
Excellent Video! The flush worked and you brought up the fact that the ink ribbon is not wires it's the actual ink lines which you see through if they are empty or full.
The college picker, dude I just have to say that your videos are put together extremely well and very informative. I got the direct USB MFLABEL printer because of you & I watched all of your how-to videos to get things rolling smoothly ..,........ I love this printer and had no idea you could print thermal labels from your phone. We appreciate the effort you put into these videos, I can't imagine it will be much longer until you have 100K subs. THANKS MAN
You just saved me over two hundred dollars, thought I would have to get a new printer and also for the info about not letting the ink run out. Lots of good info! Thanks so much! I have been having multipl problems with the black printing with this same computer. I never went as far as flushing but omg it worked. You are a genius and I wish I could hug you!
THANK YOU so much! I had my daughter's first birthday watermelon banner to print out and thought I was going to have to last minute purchase expensive banners on amazon. You saved me!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My printer was only printing with cyan ink, and I followed your directions, and it works perfectly now! Thank you so much :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH, my printer is pretty new and though it was done. You're the best. Now if I can figure out how to keep my G620 from auto shut off, I will be happy. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome. A previous video showed "buying" a cleaner and syringe to purge printhead. Glad I kept looking because this was easy & free. FYI - Two of my ink tubes were empty, my printer said 8 mins, and it used about 1/4 tank of each color since I did them all. {From top bar (3/4) down to almost middle bar (1/2 full).
Thanks, so much. My problem was solved. Still not crazy about this printer's print quality (from the day I got it)....but now at least all my colors are working.
Yippee!!! It worked just as yours did. My yellow was not printing, I went through all the steps and after the ink flush, all colors came back to me. Afterwards, like you I was curious where all the ink went, so I continued my research and found that there is a sponge in the back of the printer that collects all the waste ink. I've also found out that that sponge is not replaceable. So if or when the sponge has outlived its usefulness I guess the printer then becomes a doorstop. I Still love my printer and I haven't had to buy additional ink since its purchase. So I will be heartbroken if that report is true, and I have to retire my printer because of an irreplaceable full sponge. I will cross that bridge if and when it happens but thank you for your help with the issue at hand!!
One color would not print, despite several deep cleanings. After watching your video, I tried the ink flush, and that fixed the problem. I was hesitant to do it before, because of the warning on how much ink would be wasted. I'd still like to know where the ink went. Thanks for the well-done video.
Setup was easy through the app. I’m able to print from my phone and my computer. It connects to your home WiFi and you have to make an hp account to print wirelessly. Color looks great from the test sheet it printed. If you’re just printing words it’s pretty fast, the pictures took longer. It came with 1 black/1 color ink in the box which is nice, and free 6 months of ink up to 700 pages/month is great. Doesn’t do double sided printing but it copies and scans, so overall great value for what I need.
Thank you!! I printed about 50 pages in color and then my printer started printing most color pages in red and I did a nozzle check, clean, and deep cleaning twice and nothing! The one thing I was scared to try is what you suggested (ink flush) and it works!!! I guess I thought Ink flush meant draining my ink but I got scared because I didn’t know where the ink was going to drain to lol. Thanks for the helpful advice!!
When you lifted the lid to check if there was any ink in the tubes, I lifted my lid to check. Was shocked to see no ink in both tubes that I was lacking colour. Hopefully Ink Flush works :)
I have had this printer for years and always one ink seems to stop working usually a few cleaning and deep cleanings fix it although it does seem to get worse before it gets better like your results but this time it was not working. The ink flush worked perfectly the first time thank you!
Oh man, this worked!!! I was feeling like I was in for serious issues, but my issue was the same as yours and took all the same steps and it resolved. Thank you!!!!
I have the same question you have . Where did all the ink go ? Every time I use this printer I have to do an ink flush . If I don't use it for a week ? I have to do an ink flush . It's been this way for two years ! Is their a better fix ?
Thank you! Our 7 year old Brother printer just died, and a friend was giving away a similar Canon printer that was no longer printing in color. I did this and got it working. Now it just needs a maintenance cartridge and we're good to go.
Thank You so much. This worked awesome. I notice when I try to print a lot of pictures Magenta is the one that always fads 1st and there is always enough Ink. Thank You so much this is a 2nd Canon I bought because of the magenta. Now I can go back to my 1st printer and do this.
Thank you, I'm know going to do this. The other research I've done shows when you do an ink flush the ink goes onto a sponge which then can cause other frustrating issues. Cannon need to change the sponge idea to a reserve tank that could be empty. That is a very disappointing part of the printer.
You're a life saver. This completely worked! I had the same exact issue and after running through these steps the flush worked. My ink levels dropped a lot also. Don't know what that does but my ink is now printing as it should. Thank you!!!!
Thank you for your video!! I couldn't figure out why it was only printing black and white and now I do. You saved me hours of trting to figure this out on my own. Your a lifesaver!
YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER MAN, THANK YOU. I was very confuse because I have the printer options in Spanish, so there is not option called "Ink Flush". Instead, I tried an option called "Limpieza sistema" (in english: "System Cleaning") an it did the same process explained in the video. And it worked!! I think it´s an error in the translation or something.
for Spanish users: Para que tienen los que tienen esta impresora en español. Si su impresora no imprime ciertos colores y las tuberías están vacías utilicen la opción "Limpieza sistema". hace lo mismo que dice este video, literalmente un "Ink FLush" (Enjuague o purga de tinta). Las demás opciones del apartado de mantenimiento son inútiles.
De nada ☺️
Thank you, printer now works.
Oh good glad it works.
That's funny because the Canon documentation in English says to do "system cleaning," but that isn't an option in the English menu on the printer lol
I agree. Thank you so much for your video. If you don’t pay cannon for some kind of tech-support, they won’t even talk to you on the phone. What a joke but thanks to you we were able to fix our printer so thank you very much for this video. We really appreciate it. I hope it gets 1 million views!
The "ink flush" fixed my Canon PIXMA G7020! This is one of the most helpful video's I've watch over the years. Thanks a million for posting it!!
You are very welcome
Searching for a solution was confusing and horrible, instead this demonstration helped saving me a lot of time to solve the problem. Just GREAT!!!
Happy to help 😊 🤝
Thank you SO MUCH!!! I am an 81-year-old woman who’s not that tech savvy and your step-by-step instructions helped me fix my ink problem. I can’t thank you enough!
You are welcome Carol. Happy to help.
Thank you so much for this - the ink flush worked after all else - cleaning etc had failed. And I would never have found that without your video. Phew! Very grateful.
Thank you the flush did the trick for my printer. I am glad that people like you help out people like me.
Ink Flush (under “Maintenance”) worked perfectly! I should have looked inside the printer for the skinny ink tubes as shown in the video and I would have seen the same air gaps in most of the tubes. Once I ran the flush all the air gaps in the ink tubes were gone, the nozzle check results were perfect, and all printing returned to Normal! 😊🎉
Just make sure your ink levels are above the specified “dot” on all cartridges that are to be flushed before starting the flush. And watch the video before starting!!
Thank you so much!
I am shocked! I have a newer model and your video still guided me right through the process. Some of the steps were facilitated by the Canon software, but basically the same. I had no magenta suddenly, and I was sure I was looking at a new printer. Following your guidance I proved myself wrong as now I have my printer working again. Thank you so very much!!!!!
This is Steve's wife. This was fantastic instruction. I had done cleaning and deep cleaning and then followed your instructions. Actually my magenta was the one that wasn't printing also. Like you, I found it used up a lot of ink but can't imagine where it went. I topped all the tanks off and everything is perfect. Thank you!
Your are welcome
It was my magenta too. Odd!🤪
Thank you, the Ink Flush worked all back to normal.
It worked! I’m amazed and grateful. This was a G4511, identical control panel. I made the mistake of first trying the Canon website which tried to get me to register the serial number online and then failed to order the action it said was necessary. The ink flush was so easy to do by comparison. But yeah, where the heck did that ink go, it was nearly a quarter of a tank’s worth of color ink, disappeared into the ether.
Thank you, thank you!!! (If I have any issues again, I will save myself a couple of hours of head-scratching with trial and error and just come find you!
I just tried this on my Canon G7020. After I flushed the ink, the printer is working great. So thanks for your video!!
My printer was brand new and had no issues initially. Then had a large order to print and the colours were off on all of them. Such a waste of ink. Tried all of your suggestions sand it worked. Thank you!!!
I had tried EVERYTHING (I thought) for months and was about to throw the printer out. After the ink flush it works perfectly again. Thanks for great clear explanation.
Amazing... in fact it was bubbling.
You've just forgot to tell to check the tubes before doing the ink fill.
Thanks, it worked for me.
Thank you so much! I searched for ages, watched Canon's videos and thought my printer broken! This was the fix! Really appreciate you making this video 😊
You are welcome
The old saying - its easy when you know how - you know how AND you made it very easy. Thank you so much!
You are welcome. Happy to help 🤝
EXCELLENT CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS.....THANKS ERIC........Eric!! LOL
Glad to help!
Hello Eric, fantastic video, got straight to the point. I had all the same issues on my Canon G3620. I had done all the nozzle tests and cleaning and had the same printing outcomes as on your video.
I did the ink flush as you demonstrated ...............SUCCESS.
Thank you very much.
Truly a life saver, I spent hours thinking it was a profiling setting since all this "conveniently" happened when I set up my new laptop. So I thought it was a difference in updated profile setting from other videos I watched. And was confused as to why "Cleaning" would make it worse lol. And then you happened with your ink flush Idea and saved the day!!! Thank you so much!!
Just tried this today and my Cyan has returned to printing again, thank you for this video, much appreciated from somewhere in the UK
I love that I followed you for thrifting and thru another reseller and Googled for help with my printer and this came up.
I love that too 😂👍
Whew! Two years along, and this also worked perfectly for my Maxify Gx6050! Thank you so much!
It worked... You are Life Saver.... Thamk You Sir...
You're a genius! I was despondent about how to fix this exact same problem on my printer and YOU FIXED IT!! So grateful!
This is one of the best troubleshooting videos I have seen. Thank you!
You are very welcome, I appreciate that.
PERFECT! Clear instructions! I had done everything to the point of the ink flush. Found your video. Had the same issue with magenta. All fixed now! You rock!!!
To echo everyone else's comments - great job, helped me fix the printer, my yellow had stopped working. All good now. Makes me think electronics companies should pay you guys for doing easy to follow videos to fix their products!
Oh good glad you got it going! Better troubleshooting and support than their manual 👍
Thanks very much. Moving my printer to a new house could have caused the problem of no magenta but running through the steps you kindly laid out for us solved it only one cleaning! Thank you very much. Very helpful video.
This video is so great! Saved me a lot of time figuring out how to fix my printer, with very little effort! Thanks man!
You are very welcome. Happy to help.
Thanks, man. Had no yellow and thought that was what might be needed but was reluctant to try without some helpful guidance, which is exactly what you provided.
Fantastic.... after trying what I thought was EVERYTHING ... which didn't work ... YOU saved the day. Genius .. Thanks a bunch. Will keep you bookmarked for further info.
Happy to help. Glad you got your printer up and running
Fixed my printer! Thanks so much!!! My green was showing as blueish. Works like new!
Thank you Eric. I was getting so frustrated. I had just moved and wondered if I'd damaged the printer, even though I carefully put it in the back of my own car instead of letting the movers do it. I spilled black ink somehow, but that's all cleaned up. I had to do the flush FOUR times for it to work. So hopefully if it doesn't work for someone else first time, try, try again. Thank you again Eric
Glad you got it going. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones 🤝
Seriously, you are the BEST! I have spent hours trying to fix this issue. I wish I would have watched your video first. Would have saved me so much time and frustration. THANK YOU!!!!
I’m very slowly trying to start a small business after having to leave my 9-5 job due to the pandemic & being home with my kids. I NEED my printer, and you just saved me from rage tossing it out of a second story window! Thank you!!!
You are very welcome 🤠 so glad you got it going.
It worked! Canon Pixma 4200 is the beast comparable to many many other printers!
Thank you for the great video. This is exactly what I needed. I was getting worried that something had gone wrong with my printer right in the middle of printing my son's girlfriend's senior photos. My experience was exactly like yours in that the nozzle check initially showed no magenta, then after cleaning it showed no yellow. However, after completing an ink flush everything was back to normal. I also appreciated that you showed us the little dot on the ink level windows as I had never seen that before. Thank you so much!
THANK-YOU. Fixed my printer, wasn't printing cyan at ALL. Pixma G6000. I could see the cyan wasn't going all the way through the tube on the inside. Didn't know how to do the nozzle check or cleaning before either. You rock thanks!!!
You are welcome. Happy to help 😃
Thanks. This worked perfectly. It used so much ink though. I now have my computer set to automatically print a color test page once a week to keep this from happening again.
That's smart to set up that. ,🤝
So much better than the actual Cannon youtube video on this. Thanks!
You are welcome 🤠
Went up to deep cleaning and fixed the issue, thank you Eric!
You are very 🤗
This video solved my problem, Thank You!! But now that this has happened and I have not had the printer more than 6 months and the flush used so much ink, so disregard the whole reason I paid this much for a printer was to save money on ink. Not Happy at all with this printer now. Will be reaching out to Canon. :( grrrrr But thank you for solving my issue!!
THANK YOU! 1 year-old printer with nearly full ink tanks, and the black completely stopped printing. Nothing I did worked, but your clear-cut instructions did the trick. Forever grateful and clicking on "SUBSCRIBE" right now!
Happy to help 😊
Wow was this so helpful! We thought we'd never get it to work again, having done Clean and Deep Clean already once, but we followed your very clear instructions and it worked after yet one more Deep Clean. We can't thank you enough!
Looked and tried many videos to correct my printing problem. This one did it!!!! I have subscribed and recommend all doing the same! I might add I'm 62 years old so technology is not my "gift" but so simply demonstrated even I could do it! (Didn't even need to call the granddaughter in! lol
Oh wow, I'm so happy to hear that it helps. Thank you for checking out the video 🙏
interwebs are great...this was exactly the video I needed.
Ink flush did the trick! When the cleaning and deep cleaning didn't work, I was not optimistic, but the ink flush finally got my printer back. Thanks so much.
Woohoo! You are very welcome.
Great video! Thank you. Most tech support videos require their own tech support video and are worthless. This was great! Thank you.
You are very welcome 🙂
Probably the most helpful video on the internet regarding this issue. Thanks boss 👍
You are welcome
Thank you so much!! I had tried several things that didn't work (cleaning and deep cleaning) but then I followed your instructions for Ink Flush, and voila, my cyan color returned. Yay!
You are welcome 🤠
Thank you so much. Especially pointing out the tubes being empty. I was able to skip the deep clean and went right to my flush when I noticed the yellow and magenta tubes were empty. I'm guessing all that ink just refilled the tubes. Thanks again.
Hi! Thank you for the video! I did not know, this printer has some maintenance option without you :D Deep clean helped and now magenta is visible. Thank you very much! Have a nice day, wish you great health!
I'm so grateful for your helpful and thorough troubleshooting tutorial! I've come back to this video twice now to save me. Bookmarked!
Awesome! Ours was not doing magenta either! And after one clean cycle it worked! Thanks so much
Excellent Video! The flush worked and you brought up the fact that the ink ribbon is not wires it's the actual ink lines which you see through if they are empty or full.
Glad it was helpful ☺️
The college picker, dude I just have to say that your videos are put together extremely well and very informative. I got the direct USB MFLABEL printer because of you & I watched all of your how-to videos to get things rolling smoothly ..,........ I love this printer and had no idea you could print thermal labels from your phone. We appreciate the effort you put into these videos, I can't imagine it will be much longer until you have 100K subs. THANKS MAN
Appreciate you Brandon. Happy to help and glad you are printing smoothly 🙏🙌
You just saved me over two hundred dollars, thought I would have to get a new printer and also for the info about not letting the ink run out. Lots of good info! Thanks so much! I have been having multipl problems with the black printing with this same computer. I never went as far as flushing but omg it worked. You are a genius and I wish I could hug you!
Thank you so very much! My magenta wasn’t working and the deep cleaning did the trick!! Happy Monday!!
THANK YOU so much! I had my daughter's first birthday watermelon banner to print out and thought I was going to have to last minute purchase expensive banners on amazon. You saved me!
Aww how sweet. Glad I was able to help. Happy birthday 🥳
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My printer was only printing with cyan ink, and I followed your directions, and it works perfectly now! Thank you so much :)
You are welcome
Color ink was not working. Doing the ink flush fixed my problem. Thanks for the video! Very helpful.
You are welcome. Happy to help 😸
this just worked great on my Cannon G600, I lost Yellow and Cyan colors, but now they are back, thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH, my printer is pretty new and though it was done. You're the best. Now if I can figure out how to keep my G620 from auto shut off, I will be happy. Thanks for the great video.
Awesome. A previous video showed "buying" a cleaner and syringe to purge printhead. Glad I kept looking because this was easy & free.
FYI - Two of my ink tubes were empty, my printer said 8 mins, and it used about 1/4 tank of each color since I did them all. {From top bar (3/4) down to almost middle bar (1/2 full).
Thanks, so much. My problem was solved. Still not crazy about this printer's print quality (from the day I got it)....but now at least all my colors are working.
Yippee!!! It worked just as yours did. My yellow was not printing, I went through all the steps and after the ink flush, all colors came back to me. Afterwards, like you I was curious where all the ink went, so I continued my research and found that there is a sponge in the back of the printer that collects all the waste ink. I've also found out that that sponge is not replaceable. So if or when the sponge has outlived its usefulness I guess the printer then becomes a doorstop. I Still love my printer and I haven't had to buy additional ink since its purchase. So I will be heartbroken if that report is true, and I have to retire my printer because of an irreplaceable full sponge. I will cross that bridge if and when it happens but thank you for your help with the issue at hand!!
Thank you!! This is the solution I’ve been trying to figure out. My printer is working correctly now.
Followed your instructions and then did an ink flush. Thanks...😊
You are welcome
One color would not print, despite several deep cleanings. After watching your video, I tried the ink flush, and that fixed the problem. I was hesitant to do it before, because of the warning on how much ink would be wasted. I'd still like to know where the ink went. Thanks for the well-done video.
Do I dare ask if it was the magenta????🤔
A lifesaver. Especially because the option Flush Ink does not come up in the Canon online manual / troubleshooter. Thanks !!
Setup was easy through the app. I’m able to print from my phone and my computer. It connects to your home WiFi and you have to make an hp account to print wirelessly. Color looks great from the test sheet it printed. If you’re just printing words it’s pretty fast, the pictures took longer. It came with 1 black/1 color ink in the box which is nice, and free 6 months of ink up to 700 pages/month is great. Doesn’t do double sided printing but it copies and scans, so overall great value for what I need.
Thank you!! I printed about 50 pages in color and then my printer started printing most color pages in red and I did a nozzle check, clean, and deep cleaning twice and nothing! The one thing I was scared to try is what you suggested (ink flush) and it works!!! I guess I thought Ink flush meant draining my ink but I got scared because I didn’t know where the ink was going to drain to lol. Thanks for the helpful advice!!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! IT WORKED - WOOHOO! MAGENTA - AND ALL COLORS LOOKIN' GOOD!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This video was a life saver. I was about to order a new printer LOL. You're amazing! Have a blessed day.
You are welcome. Happy to hear that it fixed your printer 🙏
When you lifted the lid to check if there was any ink in the tubes, I lifted my lid to check. Was shocked to see no ink in both tubes that I was lacking colour. Hopefully Ink Flush works :)
Glad I found your video! I was ready to throw it out and get a new one. I did the flush and problem solved! Thank you!!
Life saver video! It worked perfectly for a Pixma G4100
Oh good glad you got it fixed 🤝
Dude thank you so much you're the only one who fixed this for me. It worked the deep cleaning is what it needed
You are welcome
I have had this printer for years and always one ink seems to stop working usually a few cleaning and deep cleanings fix it although it does seem to get worse before it gets better like your results but this time it was not working. The ink flush worked perfectly the first time thank you!
You are welcome 🤗 happy to help
Thank you so much for sharing the printer troubleshoting. Very helpful and timesaver.
Oh man, this worked!!! I was feeling like I was in for serious issues, but my issue was the same as yours and took all the same steps and it resolved. Thank you!!!!
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I am so thankful to you for making this video! You got my home office up and running again! Grazie Mille!
Thank you Eric. Great video. Solved my G7065 printer problem.
Thank you. Deep clean worked for me to get the magenta flowing again.
I have the same question you have . Where did all the ink go ? Every time I use this printer I have to do an ink flush . If I don't use it for a week ? I have to do an ink flush . It's been this way for two years ! Is their a better fix ?
Thank you! Our 7 year old Brother printer just died, and a friend was giving away a similar Canon printer that was no longer printing in color. I did this and got it working. Now it just needs a maintenance cartridge and we're good to go.
THANK YOU!!! All three colors were out. Canon manuals useless. This fixed it.
You saved the day. Many thanks for taking the time to make and share this. Invaluable.
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Thank You so much. This worked awesome. I notice when I try to print a lot of pictures Magenta is the one that always fads 1st and there is always enough Ink. Thank You so much this is a 2nd Canon I bought because of the magenta. Now I can go back to my 1st printer and do this.
Thanks for sharing this. I have a 2411 and it had the exact problem with magenta. Now she runs great.
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Thank you for this! Ink flush did it for me! it saved my G3020!
You fixed it! Thank you!!!! And not a drop of ink on me!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
THANK YOU!!! I was ready to throw it away. Thank you for clear instructions
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Thank you, I'm know going to do this. The other research I've done shows when you do an ink flush the ink goes onto a sponge which then can cause other frustrating issues. Cannon need to change the sponge idea to a reserve tank that could be empty. That is a very disappointing part of the printer.
You're a life saver. This completely worked! I had the same exact issue and after running through these steps the flush worked. My ink levels dropped a lot also. Don't know what that does but my ink is now printing as it should. Thank you!!!!
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This video was very helpful. Thank you so much. My printer is now working. Yay! 😊
Great tutorial, happy to have this much easier solution than going via manufacturer. I hope they give you commission.
Thank you for your video!! I couldn't figure out why it was only printing black and white and now I do. You saved me hours of trting to figure this out on my own. Your a lifesaver!